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Q Did the Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi ever win an Oscar for a film? J Rhodes, Leeds

A In 1995, the film Franz Kafka’s It’s A Wonderful Life, written and directed by Peter Capaldi, shared the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film with an American short called Trevor and they were both given Academy Awards.

The Capaldi film is a wonderfully absurd comedy starring Richard E Grant as the author Franz Kafka, linking his life to the plot of the film It’s A Wonderful Life.

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Peter Capaldi wrote and directed Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life

Q What happened to Queen Mary’s pearl choker necklace which you showed Queen Mary of Teck wearing in your “Why The Royals Changed Their Surname” feature on July 18?

I have never seen any other royals wearing it. Mary C Molloy, Wigan, Lancashire

A Queen Mary left much of her jewellery, including the pearl choker, to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, who was the wife of her third son, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.

When Princess Alice died in 2004, it passed to Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, wife of Princess Alice’s son, Richard, Duke of Gloucester.

Both Queen Mary and the Gloucesters, however, are known to have made a practice of having necklaces restrung, so it is not totally clear if it is exactly the same as it was a century ago.

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